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Conference held in London in 1901, representing the African
Methodist Episcopal Church.

We take the following from the "New York Age" of July 18:

"While in Boston Prof. W. S. Scarborough of Wilberforce
University was delightfully entertained by the colored
graduates of Harvard University and Amherst College at
a reception given in his honor at the home of Mr. G. W.
Forbes, a graduate of Amherst. Speeches were made by
Messrs. Forbes, Morgan, Trotter, Lewis, Williams and
others eulogistic of the life and services of the
professor in behalf of his race. The professor replied,
thanking them for the honor conferred upon him. Next
year it will be twenty-five years since Professor
Scarborough first became connected with Wilberforce
University as its classical professor and he intends to
mark the event by publishing a volume of his
philological papers. These papers have all been read
before the American Philological Association at its
various annual sessions. Twenty years ago Professor
Scarborough was first elected to membership in this
body at Harvard University. This year the association
again met at this venerable seat of learning and by way
of commemorating the event Professor Scarborough read a
paper on Thucydides. It is some of these papers that
the professor intends to put into more tangible form
for future use."

The all-absorbing question now before the American people seems to be
the race question. Our magazines and papers generally--dailies and
weeklies as well as monthlies--are deluged as it were with articles on
the Negro people--the Negro as a citizen--his status, his future, the
sort of education best adapted to his needs as a man and a citizen,
and kindred subjects. In fact no phase of the Negro's life fails of
discussion at the hands of the most flippant penny-a-liner as well as
the gravest thinker. All have theories of some sort and they do not
hesitate to express them--whether they are visionary or practical.

If theories alone could have solved this problem, long ere this would
race friction have been removed; it would have been a question of the
past, but unfortunately for the race, unfortunately for the people at
large, many of those who knew least about